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If so, that might be the BN I'd select above all to hear in the best sound, or to hear the master tape of.

The Snake Decides is crushing, and certainly worth looking for. However, you would get the same idea with other solo CDs like Monoceros, Saxophone Solos, or Six of One. So much to explore with Parker. I love his work with Louis Moholo on Bush Fire and Spirits Rejoice, for a bit of a different thing from him.

Yep.

Trio 3 + Vijay Iyer next month.

Like several of you have said, Charlie Haden was-- along with Eric Dolphy, Ahmad Jamal, Paul Chambers, Andrew Hill, Tony Williams, and Richard Davis-- one of the players that first gripped me early in my jazz listening. For me, it was "Street Woman" off of Science Fiction. The thing he did there was sort of a trademark move of his, that descending, strummy thing, but on first hearing it kind of blew my mind. His playing on "Peace" and "Ramblin'" and "Lonely Woman" and so many others... it expanded my notion of what music could be, really did. He really helped move the ball forward and for that we should all be grateful. Rest well.

Maybe after the Johnny Mathis set ....

Impulse! is being re-branded/re-launched/whatever under Universal, which also owns Blue Note. At least they're putting out Ran Blake's record. See here:

Still waiting. Seems a natural fit...

Some special labels get their own sections.

Very disappointing about the Carter/Bradford. I'll return to searching out an LP rather than buy an inferior CD. I was so looking forward to filing it alongside the other two FD CDs of yours...

I see a trend....

There is a Hat Hut LP with Marianne Schroeder playing Braxton & Stockhausen, a 4xCD box on Hat performed by Hildegaard Kleeb, and an 8xCD box set on Leo performed by Genevieve Fraccroulle. I think that's it.

Definitely no CD. I'd love to pick up that one and the 3xLP orchestra set that's also on Ring.

Certainly. Just another way to say it's virtually unattainable. Odd, too, because all other editions are sold for pennies secondhand.

The ninth edition is now incredibly rare and goes for over $100 on Amazon. Sad. Hopefully that changes.

I'd second pretty much all of Clifford's recs. Four Lives, Black Music, As Serious, & Forces In Motion were especially huge for me. There is another one called This Is Our Music that has good info as well. Unfortunately the book on this music after the 1970s has yet to be written. So as far as the last 30 years go, just start picking recordings and unraveling the loose thread.

Thanks for the heads up. I've always been infuriated with the asking price for the Braxton Solo NYC 2002 discs. (Never less than $100. Such horseshit).

It did, took about 3 1/2 weeks. There's certainly no way they have all that stuff in one location, so I'm wondering if they have to get copies from the label first before sending an order.

Ken Vandermark's Side A has a new one on Not Two. This is the band with Havard Wilk and Chad Taylor, and it's a damn good one. In related news, Joe McPhee's music is now part of the Catalytic Sound distro (Vandermark, Brotzmann, Gustafsson, PNL)

Yours is what it should be: cogent, relevant, and historically accurate. I don't know Kruth, so maybe he goes deeper than that dumb pull lets on, but it sounds to me like he's shoehorning ideas about something he knows nothing about into something that he does. Then again, there are few things that peeve me more than the psych/noise/etc set spouting off about free jazz in their proprietary language. Like Allen said, the stuff didn't come out of nowhere.

A loss. He was fantastic.

Got an email about a Bynum/Fujiwara LP, self-released in an edition of 249. $25, so I passed. Nice duo, though. Might spring for the DL sometime. http://taylortomas.bandcamp.com/

Oops. It's Urs Leimgruber/Joëlle Léandre/Fritz Hauser - No Try No Fail

HA! I've checked Ebay, Discogs and everything in between for this album nearly every day for the last 3 years. Never once seen it, not even for absurd prices. Somehow, two copies turned up on Ebay simultaneously and here we go. Now for my next great White Whale, Joe McPhee's Songs & Dances...